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Summary: Can't stop laughing!
Review: I couldn't stop laughing after watching this! Jackie did such a great job! It is of course not a typical cowboy movie. it is full of laughing! - Jackie is called "John Wane" in this because the sound of his name is pretty similar to him. It is a bit difficlut to make a western movie (who should be the enemy etc...) so western movie has not been made for a while. However now - Jackie did it! Of course the action is astonishing as usual! But this movie has another essence!
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Summary: Excellent DVD of quite a good movie
Review: I won't review the movie itself, as that angle has definitely been covered in other reviews, but I'll confine myself to discussing this DVD version of the movie.Jackie Chan's movies may not be everybody's cup of tea, but this DVD has certainly been produced by fans of the DVD format. It has extras almost coming out at the ears -- everything from an entertaining commentary track with the director and the two lead stars, Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, right down to a couple of pop-quiz like games. If you get the answers right, you get to see another few bits of exclusive video. Besides all that, there's 7 featurettes as well as 8 deleted scenes including a spectacular meeting between a locomotive and a fiery death (all deleted scenes even have their own commentary track!). It's amazing it all fits on a single DVD9.
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Summary: Jackie Chan ... period.
Review: Ya know what? I've seen every Jackie Chan movie there is. And I'm tired of everyone expecting him to please us by pushing his body as far as it will go and being disappointed when he isn't quite superhuman enough. When I watched this movie I was pleased just knowing that he does actually try to fulfil our wild expectations. In fact, as time passes I like Jackie even more as fights become more precise and poetic. Just because he doesn't get hurt doesn't mean he's "slowing down in his old age." Anyway Jackie's smile is enough to make this movie.
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Summary: Fun Western Comedy that all audiences will enjoy
Review: Jackie Chan is certainly a hard man to dislike. In 1998 he gave us the neat action-comedy Rush Hour and now he's bringing back life to the tired comic-western genre. Jackie certainly gets good marks in my books, but the real star of Shanghai Noon is Owen Wilson who proves with a fantastic chemistry-filled and swashbuckling attitude that he can go above and beyond The Haunting. The script of Shanghai Noon is very cool, with neat one-liners and plenty of interesting and likeable characters. The photography is amazing, with the stunning western backdrops and brilliantly filmed fight sequences. Speaking of those, there are some very good fight sequences, but some may argue it is not up to Chan's standards. The film also drags on for too long near the end. I was happy with the martial arts but some scenes just didn't need to be there. There are some cool bloopers at the end, so don't stop the tape or leave the theatre as soon as you see black. Shanghai Noon is fresh, entertaining, funny, surprisingly violent and intriguing. I highly recommend it for viewing on a Saturday night when your relaxed and ready to enjoy some gunslinging action fun.
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Summary: Eastern, I mean Western Comedy
Review: Here, Lucy Liu (chinese Princess) is kidnapped by a chinese traitor and a marshal who belongs in jail.Jackie Chan plays an Imperial Guard who travels from the Forbidden City to the wild west and ends up joining up with a very enjoyable and easy going train robber Owen Wilson in order to rescue her. Even though a western, there are many martial arts opportunity for Jackie. My favorite fight is when Jackie uses saplings to fight a group of Crow Indians. The interaction of the two main characters is very enjoyable and fun. To be added to every martial arts/western/comedy library.
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Summary: Yippi Kai Aye!!!!
Review: Since Jackie Chan has been making English only films this could be his best work to date! Jackie plays Chon Wang an imperial gaurdsman sent "to carry the luggage" for a rescue crew to save the Princess Pei Pei, played by Lucy Liu. She is being held prisoner by, the suprisingly excellent, Lo Fong, played by Roger Yuan. Chon eventually meets up with an unscruplous coward cowboy named Roy and the two get into some pretty funny situations together as they try to resuce the princess. As a buddy flick go this might be on par with or even a little better then Rush Hour. Roy played by the cleft-nosed Owen Wilson is a hoot as he stumbles along trying to show Chon the ropes, literally. The fight scenes in this movie are watered down slightly but good none the less. The highlight being a riverbank fight with a bunch of merauding Indians. Jackie still has some punch left in his kick for this movie. An excellent Chan flick and a decent movie overall.
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Summary: East meets West?
Review: Ah, the meeting of cultures! Martial arts film star Jackie Chen dreamed up this little opus on his own, and it shows. The story is as silly as they come, and in some ways that is the fun of this film. Every character in this film, except the two princesses (Chinese and Native American), is mediocre. However, in their element they take on Superman-like qualities, especially during the martial arts sequences. Chan plays a member of the Chinese Imperial Guard, whose mission in coming to the American Wild West during the latter half of the 1800s, is to rescue a princess and return her to China. After the second martial arts sequence, he becomes an adopted member of a Native American tribe, and the "husband" of the stunningly beautiful (and wholesome-looking) daughter of the chief. She ends up bailing him out of several desperate situations. She also ends up paired with the other male lead at the end of the film. He is a marginally competent train robber named Roy O'Bannon, whose main interest isn't the money, but the women the money buys, and buy them he does. O'Bannon is really a nice guy once we overlook the armed robbery. (Will the young Native American princess make him an honest man?) Chan's schticks include placing his martial arts skills in impossible contexts, foiling the bad guys, and exploiting his heavy Chinese accent for our entertainment. Much as I hesitate to admit it, it works. The film is as enjoyable as it is light, and it is light as a feather. So save this one for an evening when you need a break and a little mindless entertainment, pop some corn, and have a great time.
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Summary: Some Funny Moments
Review: I'm not a big martial arts fan. I watched "Shanghai Noon" despite the presence of Jackie Chan, hoping to get some good laughs out of it. And I did. There are some funny situations and some funny lines here. Unfortunately, there aren't enough laughs to make it more than ordinary as a comedy. Chan and Owen Wilson work well as a team, and they inject something extra into what is otherwise a rather disjointed story, keeping the whole enterprise from sinking below average. But that still leaves it firmly in the realm of film mrdiocrity. Finally, there are the martial arts sequences. For Jackie Chan's many fans, these may be enough to raise this flick to a level above the ordinary. For me, they were mildly entertaining, if only because that was where all the movie's action took place, but they were too contrived, and they were were repeated too often. For me, this remains an average movie. If you're not a Jackie Chan devotee, I suggest you see this one before you buy it.
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Summary: Quickly put together....
Review: When I think of a comedy with Jackie Chan, I am not thinking of an academy award presentation. I merely expect to be entertained with this quick action and daring stunts. I like Jackie Chan movies (my first was "The Big Brawl"). This movie seems like there was not a lot of thought put into it. Although the fight/action scenes are surprising, much of the humor is expected; it has been done enough times that you see it coming (like the scene where they dynamite the safe...I remember seeing this in "The Outlaw" with Kirk Douglas and a young Arnold Schwarzenegger). The scene in the jail where they mention that the prisoner-pretending-to-be-sick escape plan has been done to death. Much of the laughs here are of the same variety. I got more laughs from the outtakes at the end of the movie. If you are a die-hard Jackie Chan fan, don't let me stop you. Seeing his fight with the horseshoe on a string is intriguing. I would not recommend this movie otherwise.
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Summary: Jackie is Back!
Review: When I first saw this preview I knew that this movie was going to be funny. I was right when I saw this movie I laughed from begining to end. There was great action scenes and lots of great comedy. This probaly Jackie Chan's best next to Rush Hour don't miss it.
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